Binghamton Basketball: Dempsey's first year filled with adversity

11:35 PM,
Mar. 12, 2013

Binghamton coach Tommy Dempsey reacts during his team's game in December against Michigan. Dempsey, in his first year with the Bearcats, led the team to one more win than in the final year of the Mark Macon regime.

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The first year of the Tommy Dempsey era of Binghamton University men's basketball looked a lot like the final year of the Mark Macon era, as far the final record.

Dempsey's inaugural season served as little more than a bridge from the end of one regime to the start of the next. At the Division I level the transition is seldom smooth, and this season provided a vivid example of how tough it is to reshape a program ravaged by scandal, scholarship reductions and transfers.

This season's BU squad went 3-27 (1-15 America East Conference) one year after a 2-29 season (1-15 America East). The one ...